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Evan Only Knows: A Constable Evans Mystery
 
 
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Evan Only Knows: A Constable Evans Mystery (Hardcover)

de Rhys Bowen (Author) "The Land Rover pulled up abruptly at the side of the narrow road ..." En savoir plus
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When Evan Evans and his new fiance decide to visit his mother in Swansea, they're not expecting the disturbing news that greets them on their arrival: The young thug convicted of murdering Evan's father, who only served a few years for that crime, has been charged with a new murder. But when he meets the boy face to face, Evan doesn't find the stone-cold killer he expected but a scared young man who swears his innocence. Against his own wishes and the advice of his superiors, Evan believes the boy. He decides to investigate, at potential peril to his career. Will he choose justice for the young man over his own career advancement? And what of his father's murder that has haunted him for so long? Evan Evans is up to the chal-lenge, to be sure, and faces it all with characteristic good humor and the Welsh charm that sets Rhys Bowen's success-ful cozy series apart.


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Rhys Bowen won the Agatha Award for best novel of the year and the Herodotus Award for best historical mystery of the year for Murphy’s Law, her first installment in a new series featuring Molly Murphy and set in turn-of-the-century New York City. The author of six previous Constable Evans mysteries and the second Molly Murphy mystery, Death of Riley, she was born in Bath, England, and now lives in Northern California.
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2.0étoiles sur 5 Balance Needed Here, Avril 4 2004
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This review is from: Evan Only Knows (Paperback)
This series has swung from Disney to Grimm Brothers. The early fuzzy-bunny books were "charming" to the point of cloying, but if I have to choose one style or the other, I'll take the Disney style over the grimness of this book. I could not bear to read of the herds and flocks being destroyed. Bad enough it was all over the news; do I have to find it in my escape reading also? I'm going to be very careful about any Rhys Bowen purchases in the future, instead of treating her works as virtually auto-buys.
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4.0étoiles sur 5 Evan goes south, Juil 28 2003
Par Dr Cathy Goodwin (Seattle, WA USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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I've enjoyed all of Rhys Bowen's books, including this one.

Evan does not want to be around to enforce the Ministry's rules for handling livestock in the foot-and-mouth disease epidemic. WIth a bit of help from a superior officer, he's off the duty roster and heading for Swansea with his fiance, Bronwen. The couple visits both sets of parents, starting wtih Evan's mother, an overly concerned soul who sends her love through her cooking.

Coincidentally, Tony Mancini is arrested for the murder of a young lady from Swansea. Tony already served time for shooting Evan's father, which he claimed was accidental. Evan begins to wonder if Tony really did murder Allison and, going out on a limb, begins to investigate.

Evan's investigation keeps the pages turning. Bronwen gets involved because she looks young and young people will talk to her like an equal. The ending is a little disappointing, as the motive seems to echo other novels of recent years.
And it's not too hard to guess the ending.

As usual, Bowen serves up vivid descriptions of Wales and sets a lively pace. However, by moving the action south, we lose some local village charm. And the horror of complying with requirements to prevent the spread of foot-and-mouth disease casts a disturbing shadow on an otherwise light-hearted novel. Then again, in real life, this disease cast a shadow on this otherwise delightful world.

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4.0étoiles sur 5 Mild Well-Told Mystery, Mai 17 2003
Par charles falk (Novato, CA USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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An entertaining mystery set in Wales, as gently witty as its title. Constable Evan Evans returns to Swansea on holiday in order to introduce his finacee, Bronwen, to his widowed mother. He finds that the ex-con who murdered his policeman father five years earlier has been arrested for the rape-murder of the daughter of a prominent local factory owner. Evans arranges to interview the accused, Tony Mancini, in jail and becomes convinced that he is innocent of the girl's death. Evan feels (unlikely as that may seem)duty-bound to pursue the real killer and exonerate Mancini.

The average reader may have identified the murderer and motive long before Constable Evans does, but Rhy Bowne keeps us entertained by humorous subplots: his mother's prickly personality, Bronwen's snobbish parents, an ex-girlfriend, and a refugee lamb. There is little violence, but enough suspense to keep the pages turning.

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5.0étoiles sur 5 strong cerebral who-done-it
Evan Evans grew up in South Wales, but fits in fine in the North Wales town of Llanfair as the townsfolk look upon him as one of their own. Read more
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